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The Community Library is a polling location for precincts 1, 3 and 4. Precinct 1 is in the Betty Olsen Carr Reading Room, and precincts 3 and 4 are in the John A. and Carole O. Moran Lecture Hall. Polls open at 8 a.m. To find your precinct and polling location, or for any other information, contact the Blaine County Elections Office by calling (208) 788-5510 emailing election@blainecounty.org, or visiting https://www.co.blaine.id.us/196/Elections.  … [Read more...] about VOTE! at The Community Library

Celebrate the end of summer during the Library's annual open house with fun for the whole family. We’re booking around and inside the Library with activities for kids and adults, including a photo booth, Chihuly Cylinders Exhibit, Banned Books Bingo, book giveaway, chalk, bubbles & dragonflies, bites & beverages, music, and more.   Join us Thursday, August 25 from 4:30-6:30pm to Book Around the Library for literacy, history, community, and fun!  Why? We … [Read more...] about Book Around the Library!

What in the heck is going on in America? And what can I do to begin to envision a better world? There is perhaps no better way to investigate these questions than to write about them through the form of the American sonnet. The American sonnet is a looser, more musical and inventive variation than its traditional counterpart. Having no required rhyme scheme or specific meter, the poet has freedom to innovate their own constraints within 14 lines. We will compose anywhere between one and three … [Read more...] about Writing Workshop: Writing the American Sonnet 

Composers Kevin Puts and Gabriela Lena Frank Sun Valley Music Festival Music Director Alasdair Neale will be joined for this special summer program by two special guest speakers: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts and Grammy-nominated composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank. Both guests will share their creative experiences and musical influences and provide previews of their works to be performed during the Festival’s 2022 Summer Season. Upbeat with Alasdair talks … [Read more...] about Upbeat with Alasdair

Ever wish you were in a book club, and whether you might be if you weren't spending so much time watching addictive TV shows? The Community Library’s TV Discussion Group is a place where TV obsessives and skeptics dissect and debate one season of a prestige TV series, analyzing it much in the way a book group critiques a novel. Beginning August 10th, the focus will be on the eight half-hour episodes of The Bear, a Hulu dramedy set in a frenetic, failing, blue collar Chicago sandwich … [Read more...] about TV Discussion Group: “The Bear” 

Jews have lived and worked in the Wood River Valley since at least 1881. In the valley’s earliest days, they served as miners, merchants, and elected officials, contributing proudly to the growing region at the same time as they experienced the unique challenges that accompanied being Jewish on the American frontier. As the valley evolved over the century that followed, its Jewish residents evolved with it, becoming sheep ranchers and skiers and, in 1983, formally establishing the Wood River … [Read more...] about A Jewish History of the Wood River Valley